The Big bear of Arkansas, and other sketches : illustrative of characters and incidents in the south and south-west / edited by William T. Porter ; with illustrations by Darley.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson and Bros., [1869?] [c1843] (Collins) |
| Description | [2]-112, 115-181 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Porter, William Trotter, 1809-1858. |
| Included Work | Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 1815-1878. Big bear of Arkansas. |
| Included Work | Smith, Sol. (Solomon), 1801-1869. |
| Included Work | Stuart, John A. (John Allan), 1800-1852. |
| Included Work | Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888. |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Library of humorous American works Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | Arts and Literature. |
| Local note | 2013AK17900. |
| General note | Cover title: Big bear of Arkansas. And other south western sketches ... Philadelphia, T.B. Peterson & Bro. |
| General note | Added illustrated t.p.: The big bear of Arkansas, and other tales. |
| General note | The big bear of Arkansas is by T.B. Thorpe. Other named contributors include Sol. Smith and John A. Stuart. |
| General note | "Library of humorous American works. With illustrations by Darley."--cover. Cf. Smither, N. Library of humorous American works: A bibliographical study, 1936, p. 57-58, where this title, first issued by Peterson in 1856, is listed as no. 14 in the series. |
| General note | Lithographed cover signed: T. Sinclair's Lith., Phila. A. Bigot, fecit. |
| General note | Six of the ten engravings are included in the pagination. |
| General note | Publisher's advertisement for the Library of humorous American works, "Price 75 cents each," p. [4] of cover. According to Smither, the price was raised to 75 cents in 1869 when the publisher issued "the thirty-three titles accepted today as the Peterson 'Library of humorous American works.'" |
| General note | Error in pagins: p. v and vii misnumbered 5 and 7. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society. |
| General note | Sabin no. 95662. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2013. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |